Ch 2: POSTMODERN THEORIES 1980 – today

Question 1

Describe some of the managerial problems:

Answer 1

Coping with competition from low-wage countries, variety of goals, flexibility, innovativeness, quality, etc.

Question 2

Name some factors that describes the transistion from the postmordern theories to today.

Answer 2

• Effectiveness instead of efficiency
• Configurations of different systems
• Power and politics (decision making is for the people with power)
• Culture becomes important
• Criticism (assumption that organisations of classical school are arenas of exploitation
• Poor work conditions, low quality)
• Equality (organizations depend on actions of individuals (the meaning of equality was redefined)
• Social construction of reality (interpretations and perceptions for employees and managers differ)